Originally Posted by
HIDDY
Could be worse....you could have made plebeian Gold by going on one of those cheap humongous tier point runs during your hol in the US.
That would be gross, and an admission that being Gold actually would make a difference to my life ... Which it wouldn't.
Others will find Gold important for their personal purposes, and I have no issue with that. It doesn't make them better, or more important, people: they, like me, just extract the maximum BAEC benefits for their lifestyle. I just hope they recognise that being Gold isn't akin to having an Aviation Knighthood, and somehow representing 'social status', because it isn't.
It's just a FFP scenario ... And nothing more than that. The human being behind the tag could be a Lord, a peasant, or a hard-worked underpaid drone. Status, in the true sense, comes from different places and dimensions.